In which Sky admits to being desperate.

[cerulean_sky]

I admit to, in the day that the boiler in my house was broken, using my hairdryer as a heater.

So tell me, friends, what have you done in the name of desperation?

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[evercool.livejournal.com]

For heat?

Once I sat so close to the heater it actually burnt my skin. Like, left scars, burnt. But I wouldn't move away XD;

Then another time I was huddled up to this one guy for warmth. Then his girlfriend came, and gave me this look of death. And I just said "Hey I'm cold! You can join me XD" and she got mad. But I wouldn't leave because I was too cold and the metro wasn't there yet, haha.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* What was she wearing that she wasn't also cold, and where can I get me some?

[rajenath.livejournal.com]

If it's particularly cold, I'll turn on all the lights in my room. Most of them are horribly inefficient and put off a lot of heat, so sometimes it actually does help.

Hot tea is also nice.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

I am sadly lacking in many lights here. Instead, I have two chinese lattern-covered lights that are extremely efficient.

In Santa Fe, on the other hand, in our house which has NO light whatsoever really, I have... 6 lamps in my room, all of which give off a lot of heat.

But now that you mention it, I think I shall go get some tea.

[elfypiratequeen.livejournal.com]

Mmm...I can't recall doing many desperate things for heat--I just do normal things like sit on heating vents or stick my toes under sleeping cats--but for cooling-down type things I have rubbed popsicles over my face. And allowed my self to have buckets of water poured over my head whilst wearing a white shirt.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

White shirt and water? Eee! Sounds like fuuun!

[elfypiratequeen.livejournal.com]

It was my then-girlfriend's 16th birthday party. After the water fight, she lent me a shirt, because she's nice and her grandparents arrived. One of her grandfathers took a picture of the two of us and said, "Best friends at 16!"

We found this most amusing.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Haha! Nice.

The one good water fight I can remember having was the day I couldn't walk because a few days before that I had spent two hours horseback riding at a level I hadn't ridden at for five years. So I could barely move my legs. Added to that, because I'm a girl and small, my male friends that I was playing with figured that they could just hold me down and pour gallons of water over my head.

It was still fun though!

[elfypiratequeen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had gallon buckets dumped over me. It was fun, in a summery drenchy sort of way.

[http://users.livejournal.com/somethingelse__/]

I live in Florida. So, on the converse, I jump into large bodies of water when in need of some cooling down.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

What I wouldn't give to spend the winter in a warm place.

[lskull86.livejournal.com]

I believe I mentioned batteries...
Also, turning on all my computers actually kinda works when it's really cold :-P

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Yes, last night I had my laptop on my stomach to keep me warm. >.o

[tcideneb.livejournal.com]

I just grab my sleeping dog and put her ontop of me.

Or crawl under her, depending on where she's sleeping.

-B.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Blowdryer is less heavy. Plus not so squirmy.

[tcideneb.livejournal.com]

If she gets up, the bed's pre-warmed anyways. Dogs rock.

-B.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

Cats do the same thing, only they make smaller warm spaces. I love my kitty.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you're very small.

-B.

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

I'm not that small, and my cat isn't that big! Either way you look at it, you're insulting someone. *hits you with a shoe*

[anonshadow.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always the old bathing with the contents of four cold water bottles in the middle of January because the water was off...